Month: May 2013

I love seeing how excited my kids get over new books.

Usually the kids come with me to the library and choose their books, but one night after the kiddos were in bed, and Toph had work to do at home, I needed to return a book, so off to the library I went. Once there I couldn’t help but find books for the kiddos. AND The kids were so surprised to see the books I had chosen out for them in the morning. I love seeing their surprise over the little things.

Truman even read over 1/2 of them outloud to Lorelei 🙂

The following week, was the school library book fair. As always we found a few books to take home! Here is Elliot pushing everyone home…

Including this one called Eli, that Elliot LOVES 🙂 !

Love new books!

Love that her hair is getting long enough that I can braid!

Wish I had better pictures. We went thru a few weeks of pouring rain and the boys walked everyday with their cute umbrellas.

It was so fun as we watched them walk to school and watched for their umbrellas as they came home.

The older I get the more I appreciate conference and the beautiful, wonderful messages that I receive while listening to our leaders our church.

These conference packets were the best ones yet or our boys. They had a poking activity that they loved.

Our little bed head 🙂

Sunday morning tradition of sweet rolls and omelets is always a favorite!

The kids always love the candy tradition…one treat after every speaker.

Lorelei was happy about getting her fingernails painted.
Day one: Pink

Day two: Sparkles

As always I can’t wait for the Ensign to be printed so I can read the words and learn!

The next morning, up at 4:45 and off we went…
Here’s the Utah sign…

And the kids were excited again to be eating breakfast in McDonalds, this time in Price, in their Jammies….

This one even had a play place! 🙂

And we made it home! 6 hours of driving is a piece of cake when the kids behave so well (And sleep!)!

We spent the morning at the Anasazi Heritage Center: (the big boys received some booklets when we got there, and they worked SO hard on them-so they could earn a badge, and JoAnna was the Master little Kid Wrangler while I was helping the big boys answer their MANY questions in their booklets! Thanks again Jo!)
Don’t be fooled by this cute pic, those little girls were snuggled for just a moment, and then Lorelei was all over the place!

Love these pic of the boys with Cora Jo:

Grinding Corn:

There were some beautiful exhibits, and lots of it was hands on:

Tucker with his big booklet:

Truman with the microscope:

Cute Cousins

Do you think they could fit in? 🙂

I loved seeing these artifacts:

Look at how adorable Lucy is! This picture makes me want to squeeze her!

I’m not sure what these cute girls are up to here, but they are cute!

The awarding of their pins was serious business, and taken very seriously (they even had to take an oath 🙂 to be respectful of the dunes)

Here they are with their pins: (Never mind the drama about who should have received which pins, JoAnna graciously shared her pin!)

And then to the picnic area for some yummy lunch!

Hiking to the anasazi home (I can’t remember what it was called…this is why I should type post sooner than a month! 🙂 ) It was fun to have just spent the morning learning about them, and then doing the little hike. It was a perfect length for the littles.

Lorelei was tired after the hike, and while she slept, Jo graciously watched her and Elliot, while Tucker and Truman and I went swimming again!

After napping and swimming we made a quick stop for TUCKER: 🙂

And then to another park:

Truman was missing Toph this day, and I thought he was just being silly, because we forgot the soccer ball…It was pretty cute to see Tuck go out there and try to cheer him up. He was happy to know the next day we would see our dad!

That night after everything was packed, I went into my room to move Elliot off my bed, when I saw this:

Elliot had twisted himself up in the blankets and rolled off the bed, without waking up…:)

Thank you again Chad and Jo for hosting my crazy self and kiddos, and being so gracious, kind and patient with us! We had a BLAST! Can’t wait to come see you again, this time with Toph! 🙂

The day started off with a trip to Dolores, and the Library…
They had a beautiful, beautiful Geranium that was as big as Truman. I could scarcely believe it’s size.

My kids were thrilled and excited that they even served goldfish at story time!

Cute, Cute Girls enjoying the fish together! 🙂

Then to a fun Dolores Park, where we played and played and played! Including a great game of hide and seek.

Lorelei saying hello to her dad who she was missing sorely:

Then to the Whistle Stop Restaurant (I think that’s the name?) where they had some DELICIOUS sweet potatoes fries!

And quiet time, (and electronic time 🙂 )

Afterwords we got some good kite flying in the Bischoffs backyard

Afterwords we headed to the park to play! (they have so many parks so close by)
(I love this picture of all of us packed in the car)

Having fun at the park:

And while we were finishing preparing dinner there was some silly dancing going on with things on heads 🙂

Can you tell we love our cousins?

After driving all morning, we were excited to finally be in Colorado!

We had some yummy lunch, and let the littles have a quiet time,

Lorelei fell asleep sitting up 🙂

and all the big kids got to play Truman’s new toy, a Ninendo DS:

Afterwords we went swimming at their awesome pool:

Lorelei cried when it was time to take off her new swimsuit (thanks Aunt Cat!)

The boys LOVED staying with Aunt Jo and Uncle Chad, especially because of their yummy evening treats 🙂

And I loved seeing those cuties snuggling together 🙂

A wonderful first day of vacation!